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ἀρτίστομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀρτίστομος

Structure: ἀρτιστομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sto/ma

Sense

  1. speaking in good idiom, with precision

Examples

  • ἔστι δ’ ὁ μὲν Αὄρνοσ κόλποσ ἀγχιβαθὴσ καὶ ἀρτίστομοσ, λιμένοσ καὶ μέγεθοσ καὶ φύσιν ἔχων, χρείαν δ’ οὐ παρεχόμενοσ λιμένοσ διὰ τὸ προκεῖσθαι τὸν Λοκρῖνον κόλπον προσβραχῆ καὶ πολύν. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 4 10:7)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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